The Wall reflects a new chapter of Geneva Skeen’s ongoing research into powerful leeside mountain winds. From the howling Santa Anas in Southern California to Chinook of the Rocky Mountains, Skeen traces momentous weather patterns across vast landscapes. This specific composition captures the blistering sound of the Alpine foehn. The Wall was commissioned by Sonic Acts for the Spatial Sound Platform, and was presented during The Listening Room at Zone2Source in 2024.

Geneva Skeen (US) is an artist who works with sound, voice, architecture, video, sculpture, and software. She is influenced by écriture féminine, alchemical metaphors, and a range of musical traditions ranging from holy mysticism to industrial. Her recordings, performances, publications, and installations focus on site-specific landscape studies as a means to highlight complex interdependencies between perception, attention, and trauma. Through linkages made between our finite physical landscapes and their infinitely permutable digital representations, these works explore qualities of embodiment amidst climate catastrophe and late capitalism. She has released works on Room40, LINE Imprint, Touch, Dragon’s Eye Recordings, and Crystalline Morphologies.

Premiere: Sonic Acts Biennial 2024 (NL)
Part of Re-Imagine Europe – New Perspectives for Action. Co-funded by the European Union.
This work is available for touring.
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